Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothes, like those casual, comfortable, contemporary Americans they are made for, will not only be bought and worn at home but will be noted and copied in Rio and in Rome, on the Ginza and the Avenue George V. After more than a century of obeisance to Europe's high priests of couture, American designers have won worldwide respect as creative interpreters of a way of life-and style. It is a rebellion and an achievement that has been building since World War II. But it has, in the eclectic fashion world of 1976, undeniably come...
...Rio de Janeiro...
Ford left undefined what appropriate action he meant. In one sense, he appeared to be simply reaffirming the U.S. commitment to the hemisphere's senior defense treaty, the Rio Pact. But it also appears that Ford was declaring what Secretary of State Kissinger had been telling Latin American leaders privately last month on his tour of the Latin nations: that the U.S., with the support of key Latin nations, would move against Cuban military intervention anywhere in the hemisphere. In any event, all putative Administration notions of further normalizing relations with Cuba are now in the deepfreeze...
Students by and large saw him as a jet-setter, "an eccentric Southern aristocrat" always "flying off the Rio or something." But Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes...
Senator Tower's office requested that the $2.2 million migrant-worker-program grant be given to the pro-Administration Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council as opposed to the consortium of OEO CAP agencies. DOL has already announced that the OEO groups have the best proposal. If the Development Council were to receive the grant, there would be a significant plus for the Administration, as OEO's negative voice would be silenced, and the Council's positive feelings towards the Administration could be stressed. DOL has told Tower that the grant will be awarded to Tower's choice. Tower will...